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4 2MethodologicalPluralism
4 2MethodologicalPluralism
2011
Kaja
Brankov
Igor
Ivakovi
Isidore Auguste
Marie Franois
Xavier Comte
(1798 1857)
Leopold
von Ranke
(1795
1886)
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Edward
Hallett Carr
(1882
1982)
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Paul Feyerabend
1975: Against Method
Even in the natural sciences
researchers often changed what
they were doing and how they
did things.
A single prescriptive scientific
method would limit the
activities of scientists, and
hence restrict scientific progress
Successful science require a
state of epistemological
anarchy.
Paul
Feyeraben
d
(1924
1994)
Ziliak & McCloskey, 1996: 182 fulllength papers published in the 1980s in
the American Economic Review 70%
did not distinguish economic from
statistical significance
Ziliak & McCloskey, 2008: The practice
got worse in the 90s
Is mainstream economic
research paradigm
ripe for overthrow?
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Environmental management
is becoming more complex :
Multifaceted nature of
environmental protection and
promotion
Environmental policy
Stakeholders pressure
Multidisciplinary and
interdisciplinary provision of
environmental protection
Transformation of
complexity into a pluralistic
methodological approach:
Diversity of qualitative and
quantitative methods
Integration of qualitative and
quantitative research methods
Multidisciplinary approaches to
research methodology
Adequate application of a
3 pluralistic methodology leads
to advanced research results
in environmental
management
Deeper, broader, multidimensional
Realistic, practical
Comprehensive
Context-related
Unexpected results
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